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...uneasy weeks, white South Africans had tried not to notice the ugly constitutional squabble between Prime Minister Daniel Malan and South Africa's Supreme Court (TIME, March 31 et seq.). While the country celebrated 'the 300th anniversary of the landing at Cape Town of South Africa's first white settlers, government and opposition kept political truce. Last week the truce was over...
...Cape Town's Victorian Parliament building, Malan's noisy Nationalists shouted for legislation to overrule the court, which had declared one of Malan's Jim Crow laws unconstitutional. The opposition vowed to defend the court, if necessary by force. "You are breakers of the law," cried Opposition Leader Jacobus Gideon Strauss. "You will lead the country to revolution and anarchy...
...with Strauss's new boldness strengthened the opposition. Quavery old John Christie, 69, longtime leader of South Africa's small but powerful Labor Party, left his bed in a nursing home to be present at the debate. He struggled to his feet, shaking a gnarled fist at Malan. "If it's the last thing I do," he rasped, "I'll fight the wicked proposals of this government...
...Malan's headlong rush towards a narrow Afrikaner state-anti-British and anti-black-was too much for one of South Africa's oldest living heroes: 80-year-old General Sarel Francois Alberts. In the Boer War, Alberts fought alongside the late great Field Marshal Smuts against the hated British; after Smuts made peace (in 1902), they fought one another. Alberts, in 1914, rebelled against South Africa's pro-British government; he was defeated and captured by one of Smuts's toughest lieutenants: Dolf de la Rey. Since then, captor and captive have gone their separate...
...South Africa's 1,500,000 Boers as members, it has been a powerful and unabashed leader of extreme Boer nationalism. During World War II, Reformed predikants (Afrikaans for "pastors") refused to baptize children of South African soldiers who were fighting with the British against the Germans. Daniel Malan, once a predikant himself, has lined up most of his fellow clergymen behind his rabble-rousing campaign for apartheid (race segregation policy). "The Negroes," the church has officially announced, "cannot have the vote because they are incapable of exercising it with responsibility towards...